The issue was that we were letting people upload files as submissions. If you uploaded a file, your email or name would be shared (and we had a note explaining this in the description of the question that offered the upload option). Nearly no one was using the upload option, and if you didn’t upload anything, your information wasn’t shared.
Unfortunately, Google’s super confusing UI says: “The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload files and submit this form. Your email is not part of your response,” which makes it seem like the form is never anonymous. (See below.)
I removed the upload option today to reduce confusion, and hope people will just create a pseudonym or fake Google account if they want to share something that’s not publicly accessible on the internet via link anonymously.
What the form looked like:
I don’t remember what the wording of the description actually was, but it was along these lines.
Here’s what the settings for the test form look like:
The issue was that we were letting people upload files as submissions. If you uploaded a file, your email or name would be shared (and we had a note explaining this in the description of the question that offered the upload option). Nearly no one was using the upload option, and if you didn’t upload anything, your information wasn’t shared.
Unfortunately, Google’s super confusing UI says: “The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload files and submit this form. Your email is not part of your response,” which makes it seem like the form is never anonymous. (See below.)
I removed the upload option today to reduce confusion, and hope people will just create a pseudonym or fake Google account if they want to share something that’s not publicly accessible on the internet via link anonymously.
What the form looked like:
Here’s what the settings for the test form look like: